Learning Quotes by Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Newt Gingrich, John Dryden, Soren Kierkegaard, Martha Graham and many others.
It’s not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it’s what you have to UNlearn.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him… instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.
I learned early on that I could get a lot of attention by singing and writing little songs, so it was like throwing nuts to a monkey… I just couldn’t get enough.
There’s no way I can justify my salary level, but I’m learning to live with it.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Anybody who has ever “gotten it” by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
I think once you stop learning, you’re going to stop growing.
if you learn to hate one or two persons… you’ll soon hate millions of people.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.
Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to ‘catch knowledge of objects.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
To learn is to change.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.
I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it’s over. You have the memory of it, but it’s very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Sometimes as human beings, we’re so contradictory – we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That’s what I’m learning to embrace in television – not knowing what’s going to happen.
But the ground of a man’s culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.
The idea behind reinforcement learning is you don’t necessarily know the actions you might take, so you explore the sequence of actions you should take by taking one that you think is a good idea and then observing how the world reacts. Like in a board game where you can react to how your opponent plays.
I say if it’s going to be done, let’s do it. Let’s not put it in the hands of fate. Let’s not put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn’t know who he is and the latter does.
Nobody comes out of their mother’s womb doing cucarachas.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain’d his name!
We have to become a learning society, committed to quality education from early childhood right through to re-training in later life.
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.
The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call ‘the classical theory’, will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren’t comfortable with that.
Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content
Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we’re creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
Do your best and keep learning – that’s what I believe in.
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.
As I’ve always been open to learning, directors have helped me with the nuances of acting.
No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.
I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant ‘small’ could be.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
When you face adversity . . . don’t’ ask: Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to suffer this, now? What have I done to cause this? Rather ask: What am I to do? What am I to learn from this experience? What am I to change? Whom am I to help? How can I remember my many blessings in times of trial?
Whiners usually play alone.
It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don’t have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.
Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.
When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
I don’t sing a song unless I feel it. The song don’t tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I’m doing.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that’s what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I’m still learning, and I’m still on a constant quest for knowledge.
To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter’s art.
We should test prudently; not profligately.
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
There’s more learning than is taught in books.
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.
My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn’t realize they were learning.
I am fiercely loyal and over-possessive, but I am learning to control my being possessive. I have become quite mature, though not as much as I would like to be, but have still improved tremendously. I can’t hide my feelings, and it takes a lot of effort to be closed about things I feel for.
To buried merit rise the tardy bust.
School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.
The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities.
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
Learn and think imperially.
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that’s the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.
It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.
Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.
Good questions work on us, we don’t work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.
The germ of an idea doesn’t make the sculpture that stands up… so the next stage is hard work
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
I think you learn more if you’re laughing at the same time.
Education is cheap; experience is expensive.
You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.
Nobody motivates today’s workers. If it doesn’t come from within, it doesn’t come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.
I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can’t afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
There are a limited number of things we can be personal with. This understanding can bring us to pare down to what we really need, and to let go of that which we cannot hold in caring awareness.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
We may learn that having too much can be another form of poverty.
The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you’re definitely not an expert.
I’m constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion – to always be learning and growing.
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you’re going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.
Learning how to keep track of inventory and cash flow and creating an income statement and a balance sheet are great skills to learn for managing existing businesses.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
I was always at my best when I was learning, when I was curious. When I had yet to see past the next horizon.
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.
Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
What I love about ‘Big Hero 6’, with Baymax himself – this sentient creature who’s actually a learning robot – with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that’s the fun part of learning guitar
Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.
The thing about school is that if you’re forced into learning stuff, you’re not going to be into it.
Every parent’s deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.
When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
Some questions don’t have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Wen you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but vether it’s worth while goin’ through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it’s a matter of taste.
When you’re too robotic and scripted, the students tune you out. So I always tried to use different learning modalities – kinesthetic, auditory, visual, whatever might bring learning to life.
India has a large base of tech talent, and I hope that a lot of AI machine learning education online will allow Indian software professionals to break into AI.
Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician’s brain.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.
My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and “solutions” often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
The more you’re out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion – ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
Man is a strange animal, he doesn’t like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.
My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That’s very disappointing to me. I’m still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.
I keep learning from my mistakes, and I take advice from my seniors, and the aim is to be the best in the world across all formats.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word ‘guru’ only because ‘charlatan’ is too long to fit into a headline.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
They may forget what you said – but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
It is important to do what you don’t know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.
First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn’t want to see it for myself but I certainly didn’t want millions of people to see it.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive
Thought is more important than art….To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren’t enjoying today’s sunshine.
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton’s genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Learning is the gateway to adventure.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
You have to think for your team-mates and give them positive response. Whatever happens as a captain you have to take the responsibility. Backing my team-mates and supporting them was the biggest learning.
Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.
I got to know Elton John’s older music by learning to like his newer stuff. ‘The Lion King?’ That’s what I like.
Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Learning a new trick will just happen randomly when I’m skating and if I feel good doing it, I take it to a street spot. If I’m really confident in it I practice it a lot, so I can do it in a contest.
I grow old learning something new every day.
No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.
I really love learning and working long hours.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.
[In my home workshop,] generally I’m mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it in the same way twice.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
I didn’t even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
Smart people don’t learn… because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.
Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheating. The curriculum sent the clear message to me that learning was a highly individualistic, almost secretive, endeavor. My working class experience…was disparaged.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.
And just because you have colleges and universities doesn’t mean you have education.
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
To be a teacher you must be a prophet – because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.
I’m never satisfied. I’m always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.
Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.
A lot of the progress in machine learning – and this is an unpopular opinion in academia – is driven by an increase in both computing power and data. An analogy is to building a space rocket: You need a huge rocket engine, and you need a lot of fuel.
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.
I think I’m learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven’t always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.
Contrary to widespread faith in “communication” and “knowledge transfer,” information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.
Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
… studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
The biggest learning is that an athlete needs to know when to stop. To know that if I push beyond this, there could be a problem.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
It may be said “In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn’t be doing it.” In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.
Teaching is the royal road to learning.
To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.
Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Everybody’s a work in progress. I’m a work in progress. I mean, I’ve never arrived… I’m still learning all the time.
I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
I am learning English and even try to talk in English with people. I don’t care if people are laughing at me. I always look at the Internet for the correct pronunciation and play word games.
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
In my life, I only kept learning different dance forms, yoga forms. From my gurus, I have learned how to be disciplined and consistency. Do a particular thing continuously, you will get the results.
We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
The basic economic resource – the means of production –
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge.
is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
It is and will be knowledge.
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.
And on that yes the future world depends.
Flowers and pricker bushes grow out of the same dust.
After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state’s online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
A ‘school-at-home’ approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
You all have learned reliance
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.
On the sacred teachings of Science,
So I hope, through life, you will never decline
In spite of philistine Defiance
To do what all good scientists do.
Experiment.
Make it your motto day and night.
Experiment.
And it will lead you to the light.
The best way to help people to maximize their creative potential is to allow them to do something they love.
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.
The real objective isn’t just “knowledge” or getting an 80-20 understanding of the situation. The overriding objective is engagement, creating a buzz, mobilizing people to take action.
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
The best learners… often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school… It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don’t understand it. You see my physics students don’t understand it… That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.
If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.
Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.
Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.
Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.
Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I’m willing to learn about anything and converse and pick people’s brains, and I ask people to do the same. I’m into learning anything new and trying new stuff.
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life’s goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
My kids miss me when I’m away, but I don’t mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq… it’s such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It’s changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.
Our passion for learning … is our tool for survival.
We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.
In the perspective of every person lies a lens through which we may better understand ourselves.
I’ve always said, the key organ here isn’t the brain, it’s the stomach. When things start to decline – there are bad headlines in the papers and on television – will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.
One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to tear up a bunch of cards that it would be to reorganize a large amount of source code.
Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.
Patience helps us to view imperfections in others more generously to the end that we may learn to be more wise than they have been.
Money is a big part of your life, and when you learn how to get your finances under control, all areas of your life will soar.
Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.
Of course everybody’s thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.
My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.
you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool.
In software design, it’s all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.
Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.
Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
It is better to learn late than never.
Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.
Words are the only things that last for ever.
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.
You have to learn and keep learning.
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment.
I’ve taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.
If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you’re capable of a lot more than you can imagine.
In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.
Whoever touches the life of the child touches the most sensitive point of a whole which has roots in the most distant past and climbs toward the infinite future.
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
If this validates anything, it’s that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.
We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
Eventually, while researching, you’ll learn something you didn’t want to know. Some fact that ruins a plotline you had in mind. The good news is that sometimes, learning all the facts can make for a much more interesting story than you originally had in mind.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there’s not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It’s also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company’s operations.
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.
The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.
It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
My father is a real idealist, and he’s all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding ‘No.’ But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I’d be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.
Playing without a concurrent critical review of one’s skills will simply get you nowhere.
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
I’m learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.
Every performance has provided a learning experience, and as we go, we keep fine-tuning the shows. If we decide to do a tour, we rehearse until we perfect. One thing that I do prior to every show is that we huddle the band and pray. We thank more than we ask.
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.
If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
I was open to taking risks and learning from my mistakes.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
America’s best teachers are always looking for new ways to bring learning to life.
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
Neurologically, I’m a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I’m sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
When I was learning to drive, I thought the big milestones were changing gear, changing lane, and three-point-turns.
Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it’s going to be solved by deep learning. There’s going to be thousands of applications of deep learning.
Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does.
I began learning how to dance when I was 3 and a half years old.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They’re never discovered by users, and they don’t affect performance. It’s much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.
I am forever on the way
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had ‘Loneliness’ and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
When you’re learning how to do magic, the first rule is ‘never reveal a secret.’ In a way, by telling someone I’m a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all… How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.
Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
I’ve been making sushi for 38 years, and I’m still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!
Luckily, I’m not educated. If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop.
The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others.
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
It is the teacher – what the teacher knows and can do – that is the most significant factor in student achievement.
We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O’er books consumed the midnight oil?
Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
No man is the wiser for his learning
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. … that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms… between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.’… ‘I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy – draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Just because you are CEO, don’t think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I’ve never forgotten that.
I’m still growing, still learning. I’m still open and vulnerable enough to know there’s much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don’t reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.
While we teach, we learn.
Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
If they can’t learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.
More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
Education is helping the child realise his potentialities.
To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.
The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that’s training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child’s obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.
We don’t have much time, so we don’t teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.
You never stop learning in F1. It’s the typical thing that all drivers say, but it’s absolutely true. But also, apart from driving, you learn a bit about the political side of F1. People don’t realise how much there is outside the car.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.
I love to sing. I’m learning guitar right now.
Learning a play is one thing, but to learn to play Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ without music: that’s brilliant.
In order to be big, you have to think big.
If you think small, you’re going to be small.
If you think small, you’re going to be small.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it’s simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.
Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
I can’t say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It’s why I advocate that everyone go to college.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
I’m a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we’ve been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can’t, we say something is wrong with the child – instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. … The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
You’re always trying to get better. You’re always tinkering. You’re always learning new things.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.
By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Anytime you come to a new team and with a new player there is a learning curve.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.
Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won’t leave him alone, I’ll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He’s going to have to tell me everything.
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.
The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.
other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours
English people don’t have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
I’ve led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I’ve learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I’ve learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.
The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
You’re never going to learn something as profoundly as when it’s purely out of curiosity
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her.
I don’t study to know more, but to ignore less.
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.
At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.
Too often, shared visions really mean, “I have a vision; you share it!”
In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors – you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
Every day is a learning day.
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Look around at things that just aren’t getting done. Maybe there’s a project you could tackle. Maybe there’s an issue that always gets back-burnered for other priorities. Challenge yourself to take on those difficult assignments. They’re learning opportunities, and you have a chance to change something for the better.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
The human body is river of intelligence, energy and information that is constantly renewing itself in every second of its existence.
I enjoy learning technical details.
I’ve just learned about his illness. Let’s hope it’s nothing trivial.
If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love… If we could share this world below, We’d need no world above.
We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can’t be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
At Microsoft, we’re aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it’s seen as empowering.
I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.
One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there to predict when people would try to cheat the system to get money. But you can predict pretty much any behavior with a certain amount of accuracy.
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.
You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Every record I do is a learning process for how I want to do the next one.
The big thing is, it’s about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, ‘Oh, this guy can’t hit a curveball; this guy can’t hit an off-speed pitch.’ But it’s about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Programming is an explanatory activity.
Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.
I love learning new things from the other actors.
When I learn something new – and it happens every day – I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
I think every role you do prepares you for the next one. Of course, ‘Nashville’ has been, and will continue to be, a huge learning experience for me as an actor. It’s something that I grew a lot doing.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
I’ve been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory.
The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories – stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we’re all connected; we’re all in this together.
Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.
love of learning is the most necessary passion … in it lies our happiness. It’s a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
You’d always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that’s when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn’t lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
You can finish school, and even make it easy – but you never finish your education, and it’s seldom easy.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
The brain is a muscle that can move the world.
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn’t be an expert anymore.
Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real – all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.
Life isn’t about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
After 39 years of business, I’m still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it’s a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what’s going on, hearing new things or new old things.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
The questions are always more important than the answers.
Some may argue that countries like Japan and China improved economically without English, but they, too, are learning English fast.
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, ‘Wrong jungle!’ … Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond … ‘Shut up! We’re making progress!’
No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you’d opened your eyes wide enough.
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. –Terri Mitchell
Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift… the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.
‘No Child Left Behind’ requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
The essence of education is the education of the body.
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.
In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.
